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Priscilla Lane (1915-1995) was an American actress who appeared in many box office successes from 1937 to 1948. Her IMDb page shows 23 acting credits from 1937-1948. This page will rank 22 Priscilla Lane movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. The only missing IMDb credit is an uncredited role in a short.
Drivel part of the page: This page comes from a request from Lupino…who just found UMR.com only a few days ago…..since her comments have been so interesting….her request of Priscilla Lane jumped right to the top of the request pile. Gotta admit our knowledge of Priscilla Lane was pretty limited before we researched this page…..now we realize she had a pretty impressive career.
Priscilla Lane Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Priscilla Lane Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Priscilla Lane movie received.
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- Use the sort and search button to make this a very interactive page. For example type in Ronald Reagan to see 4 Reagan/Lane movies.
Possibly Interesting Facts About Priscilla Lane
1. Priscilla Mullican was born in Indianola, Iowa born on June 12, 1915. In 1932 she adopted the surname “Lane”.
2. Priscilla Lane was the youngest of the Lane Sisters (Leota, Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla): The Lane Sisters were talented singers and dancers. Lola, Rosemary and Priscilla would appear in 4 movies together.
3. Priscilla Lane and her sister Rosemary were discovered by radio personality Fred Waring. Waring was also a band leader and put the sisters in his show.
4. Priscilla Lane’s big break was when Fred Waring and his band were signed by Warner Brothers to appear in the 1937 movie Varsity Show. Both Priscilla Lane and her sister Rosemary were quickly signed to multi-year contracts at Warner Brothers.
5. Priscilla Lane was considered for the role of Melanie Wilkes in 1939’s Gone with the Wind….Olivia de Havilland ended up with that part.
6. Priscilla Lane was married two times and had 4 children.
7. Priscilla Lane retired from films in 1943….to raise her family and to follow her husband (Air Force man) across America as he moved from one military base to another. So would return in the late 1940s for a brief time before leaving films again…this time for good.
8. Check out Priscilla Lane‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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Priscilla is not connected to anyone on the current Oracle of Bacon Top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list. I count only 6 Oscar winners for her and you have 4 of them mention in your links.
3 Cheers for the Irish (1940) – Thomas Mitchell
Brother Rat (1938) – Jane Wyman
Brother Rat and a Baby (1940) – Jane Wyman
Daughters Courageous (1939) – Donald Crisp
Love, Honor and Behave (1938) – Thomas Mitchell
Men are Such Fools (1938) – Humphrey Bogart
The Meanest Man in the World (1943) – Edmund Gwenn
The Roaring Twenties (1939) – Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney
How about the top 10 people on the Oracle currently, how many get to her in 2 steps. When you have 3 there are tons of connections (see Ann Harding) but these are the folks with the highest rate.
Off the top (yeah, yeah) Samuel L. Jackson was in Ragtime (1981) with James Cagney who is in The Roaring Twenties (1939) with Priscilla. Pat O’Brien also in Ragtime is with Priscilla in Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938). Sam’s gonna connect to a lot of people from the old days through that film with Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Bessie Love and Donald O’Connor in it.
Eric Roberts and Michael Madsen are both in Blood Red (1989) with Marc Lawrence who was in Dust Be My Destiny (1939) with Priscilla. If you’re with Marc too you’re gonna connect with a lot of older stars. I mean Marc was 25 back in 2000 (gone now.)
Michael is in Reservoir Dogs (1992) with Lawrence Tierney who is in Bodyguard (1948) with Priscilla.
Danny Trejo is in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) with Marc Lawrence
Harvey Keitel is also in Reservoir Dogs (1992) with Lawrence Tierney and From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) with Mr. Lawrence.
Robert De Niro is in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) with Patric McVey who is Blues in the Night (1941). I don’t know who Pat is.
Bob’s only other 2 step link is being in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) with Norman Lloyd (who) who is also in Saboteur (1942) with Priscilla.
Willem Dafoe cannot connect to Priscilla in 2 steps he needs 3.
Malcolm McDowell also cannot connect to Priscilla in 2 steps.
Donald Sutherland was in Promise Her Anything (1965) with Robert Cummings who was in Saboteur (1942) with Priscilla. Donald connects through 2 other people that even their agents never heard of.
Michael Caine was in The Bulldog Breed (1960) with Ian Hunter who was in Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) with Priscilla.
Michael was in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (there’s that pic again) only this time with Lloyd Nolan who was in Blues in the Night (1941) with Priscilla. That’s his only 2 links.
I was at the movies today and there was a trailer shown for the remake of Going in Style now starring Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin and Ann-Margret. Gotta keep their links going. The main film shown was Patriots Day which is very good.
Hey Dan
1. Thanks for checking out and sharing this information on Priscilla Lane.
2. Not surprised she has nobody on the current list….her career pretty much stopped in 1943…..minus a few movies after that….so that is almost 75 years.
3. 6 Oscar winners still seems low….especially with all that talented roaming around the Warner Brothers lot.
4. Good connections…my favorites…your point about how Ragtime is so beneficial to SLJ and his Bacon score. Norman Lloyd is still around…so that connection was a nice surprise. Caine in The Bulldog Breed…huge Caine fan…but that is a movie I did not even know existed before reading your comment.
5. I am looking forward to Going In Style….based on their role’s names…it looks like Caine has the George Burns role….Freeman has the Art Carney role…and Arkin has the Lee Strasberg role. I wonder if they will change the ending to the remake?
Great stuff as always. 🙂
HI BRUCE
1 Historians opine that the definitive era of the Hollywood Gangster Film ended with White Heat in 1949 and I didn’t start watching movies until the early fifties. However when TV came in I was able to watch on the box repeats of all the old classic gangster movies of which The Roaring Twenties was my all-time favourite for three reasons (1) Cagney’s riveting performance (2) that wonderful closing line where Gladys George says over the dead Jimmy “He used to be a big shot.” (3) the lovely Priscilla Lane as she can be seen in your fine miniature still.
2 Priscilla’s career was short from 1937 – 1948 and as you mention above even that wasn’t continuous and observers in Prsicilla’s day blamed her not becoming a top box office star on the fact that Warners simply used her as “a stooge to the likes of Garfield and Cagney.” Be that as it may her career did have its moments because as your stats table illustrates she was in a number of commercial successes and she had a lead role in a run of films like Blues in the Night, Saboteur, Silver Queen and Four Mothers; and of course she got to appear with Reagan in Brother Rat and its sequel, work alongside legends Cagney, Bogart and Grant and be directed by Hitchcock.
3 Accordingly I very much welcome this new page on a star who belonged to a more innocent age of movie making to which she was well suited and of course Priscilla’s profile nostalgically reminds me of happy evenings in front of the box watching reruns of The Roaring Twenties which for me will always not only be THE gangster movie but THE Priscilla Lane movie as well. So well presented Bruce.
Hey Bob.
1. Thanks for checking out our Priscilla Lane page.
2. Good mini-review on The Roaring Twenties….just very hard to remember if I have seen that movie. My letterboxd account and my https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/how-and-why-i-watched-1418-movies-in-2013/ say I have only watched 5 Bogart movies (and one of them was Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid) since 2013…and neither were The Roaring Twenties.
3. Glad that Lane was one of the three reasons you liked the movie so much….the closing line does not register me at all….so I am thinking I have somehow missed that classic movie.
4. Her career was short…but like a comet…it was pretty see…as it quickly moved through the night sky.
5. Her page is off to a nice start….with some good views and some nice comments…..I think it was a good requested page….thanks for sharing your movie knowledge.
Thank you so very, very much for doing the page on the gorgeous and wonderful Priscilla Lane. I discovered her on TV when I was a little kid. She has been the most overlooked female star at Warners by film historians and critics. She easily deserved a Best Actress Academy Award for Four Daughters.
She could do comedy (i.e. Brother Rat, etc.), drama (i.e. The Roaring Twenties, Four Daughters, etc.), and musicals (i.e. Varsity Show, etc.). Her talent shined against some of the best and brightest male stars of the era: John Garfield, James Cagney, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, Jack Benny, and Wayne Morris (an incredibly underrated film star and authentic World War II hero). Morris himself, merits a page.
Priscilla Lane was a treasure and thank you for sharing her again with us.
Hey Frank…glad you have enjoyed this page so much. Based on your comment…I can tell you are a serious Priscilla Lane fan. Great comment…make me want to track down and watch Four Daughters. I do think you are correct that she is very much overlooked by film historians and critics.
Her list of co-stars is pretty impressive…and you did not even mention her 4 movies with Ronald Reagan….which was when he was still a rising star at Warners. Wayne Morris? Gotta admit…I am not aware of him at all….I will have to “google” him. Thanks for sharing your movie thoughts on Priscilla Lane. 🙂
Priscilla Lane eh… I’m not that familiar with this actress… let’s see… I’ve watched 3 of the 22 films listed… Saboteur, Arsenic and Old Lace and The Roaring Twenties.
Surprised to see Arsenic and Old Lace was a big hit worldwide $406m worldwide adjusted, and probably bigger than Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life.
Interesting. Vote Up!
Hey Steve….thanks for checking out a “not so familiar actress”…..my tally is 2…maybe three…I just can’t be certain about The Roaring Twenties…both Bogart and Cagney made so many gangster movies…I have lost track which ones I have seen.
Tally count: Lupino from Germany at 4…Steve from England at 3….and Cogerson from USA at 2….though Lupino’s count is just the ones he listed as his favorites….but he still has us beat.
Arsenic and Old Lace was huge back then…..based on a successful play….Capra actually made the movie in 1941….but could not release the movie until the play closed…..so it sat on a shelf for 3 years before finally making it to theaters. Thanks for the visit and the comment.
Hello Cogerson,
thanks for putting up this page so quickly- greatly appreciated!!!
Seems like I’ve seen quite a lot of her movies, with The roaring Twenties, Saboteur, Dust be my Destiny and the funny Arsenic and old Lace my faves. Priscilla Lane had the most successful career of the Lane sisters, but she never made it into the really big league- still an impressive career for somebody who didn’t seem to have the drive of a Crawford or Hepburn to support her career.
On a sidenote, I am a male from Germany- thus my unpolished english at times :o)